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Jennifer Fortel, a May
graduate of California State University, Fresno, will have $1,000 in
scholarship money to help her pursue her doctorate in physical therapy,
after winning the national EarthDrive™ for Earth Day 2008 Contest.
The contest was sponsored by ATP®, a Sunnyvale company that manufactures
high-performance flash and DRAM memory for computers.
Fortel, who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in interdisciplinary
health and rehabilitation sciences was a Smittcamp Family Honors College
student at Fresno State. She enters the university’s physical therapy
graduate program in the fall.
She helped establish the Fresno State Recycling Club in 2004 with six
containers supplied by the Plant Operations division. Since then the
club’s recycling containers around campus have collected more than
15,000 pounds of glass, cans, plastic, paper and cardboard.
The Recycling Club participated in several activities designed to
promote conservation and environmental awareness among students on
campus, Fortel said.
And while she is pleased with the club’s success, Fortel said there is
much more to do in the name of environmental preservation at Fresno
State.
“It would be great to see recycling bins in every classroom,” said
Fortel, “and for professors to encourage students to use them. As the
Recycling Club has proven, it really is all the little things that add
up to make a huge difference.”
Michael Plaksin, ATP vice president of sales and marketing, said his
company was "overwhelmed and excited to see the huge number of responses
and the high level of enthusiasm from students in all parts of the
country." Their stories, he added, illustrate how students are working
on and off campus to help protect the environment."
He said Fortel’s winning story was exemplary in originality and
execution.
ATP’s environmental efforts include the Project: EarthDrive with
American Forests in which trees are planted for every EarthDrive sold.
The drives are manufactured with bio-recycled/recyclable materials and
packaging is both recycled and recyclable.
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